Quotes About Truth

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

Art like life is an open secret.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Paper may burn but words will escape.

See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

Nadie está intentando matarme con engaños».

El impacto de la mejor historia siempre se rebaja cuando el narrador carece de credibilidad.

Men are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find somebody ready to be deceived.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Reality doesn't owe us comfort.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake.

Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Doctor's heart. 'You know what I think? I think you don't really regenerate at all. I think you just keep taking off masks.

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

A painting did not have to be beautiful; it had to be true. Then it was beautiful.